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C and R Diving - Provide equipment and trained personnel to carry out specialist diving services and support.
Delta Marine - Operators of tugs, survey vessels and workboats.
Linda Sutherland - Indexing and library services; also comprehensive directory of other links and resources.
Shetland Janitorial Supplies Ltd - Sole up importer of Sphag Sorb - the environmentally friendly clean up solution.
Shetland Litho - Web authoring, page design, typesetting and printing services using facilities from the Shetland Times newspaper.
Shetland Business Directory - Searchable directory of businesses.
Shetland Business Innovation Centre Ltd - Provides facilities and support for new start businesses and entrepreneurs.
Shetland Agricultural Association - Grouping of individual organisations representing agricultural interests on the islands.
Topknots Hair Design - Island hair salon listing company, product and staff information, opening times, charges and contact details.
Golden Coach Restaurant - Offering dishes from across South-Eastern Asia, including Chinese, Malay, Thai, Korean and Japanese menus. Based in Lerwick, the restaurant also provides take-away facilities.
Veesik Records - Bringing the music of the Shetland Islands to the world.
Lerwick Port Authority - Lerwick Harbour is Shetland's international port at the crossroads of the north-east Atlantic.
Shetland Enterprise - Official site of Shetland Enterprise, a government agency whose aims are to strengthen communities, develop skills and grow businesses within the Shetland area.
CDs Studio Shetland - Recording studio based approximately 20 miles north of Lerwick. Contains information and photographs of the equipment and facilities available.
JL Enterprises - Appliquéd / embroidered panel and wallhanging specialists.
Shetland Publishing Company - Titles include "A Shetland Anthology", a comprehensive book of Shetland poetry, and "Told Round the Peat Fire", a collection of Shetland folk tales.
Business Map of Central Lerwick and The Knab - Guide containing a comprehensive listing of businesses and accommodation available within central Lerwick and the Knab.
Scotland's Island Experience - Company offers small coach tours to various Scottish islands.
Globus (Shetland) Ltd - Distributor of work gloves and protective clothing to UK industries. Specialising in the supply of Showa work gloves, 66N oilskins, Sioen clothing and Frost knives.
Malakoff and Moore - Marine engineering company providing marine support for the offshore oil and gas industry, fishing, ferries and cruise shipping.
Shetland Decommissioning Company Limited - Facility specialises in the decommission of offshore structures from the oil and gas industries.
Highlands and Islands Enterprise - Working in partnership with the community, this body is successfully addressing specific economic and structural weaknesses, developing a more diversified industrial base and promoting the unique attractions of the area as a location for inward investment.
Alastair Inkster Associates - Marine engineering and consultancy company. Contact and services information.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Business and Economy Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings Business and Economy Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe Business and Economy The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) To love another person is to help them love God. -- Søren Kierkegaard Business and Economy Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Business and Economy Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Business and Economy Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell Business and Economy Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara Business and Economy I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage Business and Economy We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Business and Economy "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer Business and Economy He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Business and Economy Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. -- Guy Kawasaki All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Business and Economy Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement. -- Cousin Woodman A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos Business and Economy Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Business and Economy Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Business and Economy In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs Business and Economy A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. -- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Business and Economy Marriage is a rest period between romances. "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway Business and Economy
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